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after the war of conquest the men of westeros were sooooo emasculated that their wives stopped sleeping with them and every house had a succession crisis. thankfully, aegon was good enough not to fuck their wives but he was still evil, just a different sort of evil. not the dany sort of evil

whats the lotr theme?

I’m referencing Andúril, Aragorn’s magical sword, which was reforged from the broken sword Narsil. In the poem “All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter”, the sword and its master’s fate is referenced with the lines “Renewed shall be blade that was broken / The crownless again shall be king”. So when I say that wanting Ice to be reforged follows a LoTR theme, I mean it follows a best case scenario that I think is too Classic Fantasy ™ for ASOIAF.

(this is just me messing with phrasing) what if ice was reforged into a crown like maybe the old crown of the north that was lost and so the crownless get crowned by a reforged blade and they become king

y’all really love the LoTR theme I’m trying to avoid 😭 i mean really if we want to be speculative then anything’s possible, though i struggle to appreciate a valyrian steel crown. that seems more like a targ thing to me.

didnt mean to equate a weapon w/ empowerment just meant to say sansa is the crownless who becomes king (queen). also w/ a valyrian steel blade for arya, in you mind, would it be more like needle or a dagger or a basic long sword?

ah see but i did warn against going full lotr… in any case, i have a hard time seeing the role of ____ in the north being anything but a shared role (again, with the dear hope that the remaining starklings survive…). funny enough, d&d almost got it right with the judge/jury/executioner gimmick they pulled with sansa/bran/arya. but they failed in that it was a very dumb way to display shared power, it lacked context, it was preceded with so much bullshit between arya and sansa, and nothing about bran or arya or sansa is right in the show. absolutely nothing. but if the remaining starklings do make it back to Winterfell, I believe they all will have roles in ruling it. I just don’t think it’ll be as narrow as the show portrayed it. 

as a little aside, i’m always a little wounded when i see arya basically forgotten as part of the hierarchy at winterfell. arya is, quite frankly, the most charismatic starkling. she is very good with people, very empathetic, she makes friends naturally, and she has sharp judgement. she really doesn’t have to be embroiled in political drama in order to be a future political player, especially not if the north is going to return to an isolationist state. but that’s a discussion for another day.

as for the valyrian steel weapon for arya, i’m partial to a dagger so that she can still use Needle. but that’s just dreamz.

plot twist: ice is reforged but sansa is given it and she’s queen 👍🏻

okay listen up y’all…. i love sansa and i’ve been on that qitn wave (with the exception of my dear hope that bran will return to be kitn) but i don’t think she’s gonna be carrying a sword. especially not a greatsword. equating empowerment with weaponry is very narrow-minded.

my money’s on arya being the next stark to get herself a valyrian steel blade. it only makes sense.